(TED video also featuring Bill Gates asking questions)
There are some special people, that make special things happen.
This one is clearly one of them...
I listened many TED talks, didn't ever hear applause like one he received!
As usual for special people, Salman has re-invented education, all naturally.
MIT and Harvard degrees must have helped,
and experience as hedge fund manager... maybe...
Out of YouTube phenomenon Khan-Academy is evolving in real education resource,
turning upside down most of typical thinking about roles of teachers and homework,
and making learning fun.
I wish such method is used in all schools, and I think I am not alone in this wish...
... If Isaac Newton had done YouTube videos on calculus, I wouldn't have to. (Laughter) Assuming he was good. We don't know. (Laughter)...
...what I do is I assign the lectures for homework. And what used to be homework, I now have the students doing in the classroom....
...by removing the one size fits all lecture from the classroom and letting students have a self-paced lecture at home, and then when you go to the classroom, letting them do work, having the teacher walk around, having the peers actually be able to interact with each other, these teachers have used technology to humanize the classroom...
...the paradigm here is, we'll generate as many questions as you need until you get that concept, until you get 10 in a row...
...our model is learn math the way you'd learn anything, like the way you would learn a bicycle. Stay on that bicycle. Fall off that bicycle. Do it as long as necessary until you have mastery. The traditional model, it penalizes you for experimentation and failure, but it does not expect mastery. We encourage you to experiment. We encourage you to failure. But we do expect mastery...
